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Remember when - What was your favorite Drive-in?

On June 6, 1933, Richard Hollingshead of Camden, N.J., opened the first drive-in movie theater. He experimented in his own driveway by mounting a 1928 Kodak projector on the hood of his car, and projecting onto a screen he had nailed to trees in his backyard. For sound, he used a radio placed behind the screen. Drive-ins thrived during the 1940s and '50s but faded by the 1980s with the advent of the VCR and cable television. Here are a few photos of local drive-ins that faded away. Top left, Chelmsford Twin Drive-In, photo by David Paquette /drive-ins.com; bottom left, Pinehurst Drive-Ins in Billerica, photo by Mitch Albanese/drive-ins.com; right, Wamesit Drive-In, Tewksbury, photo by Mod Betty/RetroRoadmap.com

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